Girl Can't Name All the Continents?!

[AngusThermopyle]

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It should be a necessity to know. That way we can weed out most of the morons.

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I bet if we polled a statistically significant portion of 2+2, at least one in five people would (technically) get one of the continents wrong.

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Correlation to age of 2+2er? I would guess the older, the more likely they get it right.

[The DaveR]

Guy on my floor in college thought Pittburgh was a state and thought Florida was a city.

He got a PhD from Stanford in Industrial Engineering.

[TheRover]

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It should be a necessity to know. That way we can weed out most of the morons.

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I bet if we polled a statistically significant portion of 2+2, at least one in five people would (technically) get one of the continents wrong.

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At the risk of sounding retarded,

Oceania, not Australia?

[Banks2334]

Correlation: The hotter the chic, the less continents she can name.

[BCPVP]

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Correlation: The hotter the chic, the less continents she can name.

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Very good. She was fairly hot. Low to mid eight.

[tuq]

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i really don;t think it's that outrageous - it's just memorization - like knowing the 7 dwarfs or something.

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Yep, your right one of them isn't more significant than the other or anything......

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Not that I disagree, but what was the last time you had to know all the continents. I'm pretty sure I've more recently been asked to name all the dwarfs.

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Isn't it "dwarves"? Anyway - Dopey, Sneezy, Dumbo, Mustafa, Rudolph, Theo and Evan. Pretty sure that's right. What do I win?

[valenzuela]

What 7 continents?!?!I only know 5, seriously .
America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania.

[Warik]

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Why do you think memorizing random crap should be necessary?

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Uh, what's so "random" about the 7 continents? Maybe we should ask something less random like what the capital of your home state is or what planet you live on instead. I'm sorry, but I can't imagine why a COLLEGE BOUND STUDENT wouldn't know the 7 continents. It's not like you're asking some random Joe off the street.

[Warik]

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What 7 continents?!?!I only know 5, seriously .
America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania.

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America = North America + South America

Your list is missing Antarctica, which is the big blob of ice on the bottom of the world.

[Cubswin]

According to Wiki...

"The 7-continent model is usually taught in Western Europe, China, and most native English-speaking countries. The 6-continent combined-Eurasia model is preferred by the geographic community, Russia, Eastern Europe, and Japan. The 6-continent combined-America model is taught in Latin America, Iberia, Italy and some other parts of Europe. The 5-continent model which ignores Antarctica is the basis for the five rings of the Olympic symbol. Oceania or Australasia are sometimes used in place of Australia. For example, the Atlas of Canada lists 7 continents and names Oceania."